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  • The Register: Extortion crew threatened to inform Edward Snowden (?!) if victim didn’t pay up

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/18/extortionists_ox_thief_legal_threats/ Source: The Register Title: Extortion crew threatened to inform Edward Snowden (?!) if victim didn’t pay up Feedly Summary: Don’t laugh. This kind of warning shows crims are getting desperate Dark web analysts at infosec software vendor Fortra have discovered an extortion crew named Ox Thief that threatened to contact Edward Snowden…

  • Hacker News: But how to get to that European cloud?

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    Source URL: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/now-how-to-get-that-european-cloud/ Source: Hacker News Title: But how to get to that European cloud? Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the urgent need for Europe to develop its own cloud infrastructure separate from American providers, stressing that traditional market forces have failed. To achieve this, it calls for…

  • Hacker News: Mlx-community/OLMo-2-0325-32B-Instruct-4bit

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/16/olmo2/ Source: Hacker News Title: Mlx-community/OLMo-2-0325-32B-Instruct-4bit Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the OLMo 2 model, which claims to be a superior, fully open alternative to GPT-3.5 Turbo and GPT-4o mini. It provides installation instructions for running this model on a Mac, highlighting its ease of access…

  • The Register: ‘Dead simple’ hijacking hole in Apache Tomcat ‘now actively exploited in the wild’

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/18/apache_tomcat_java_rce_flaw/ Source: The Register Title: ‘Dead simple’ hijacking hole in Apache Tomcat ‘now actively exploited in the wild’ Feedly Summary: One PUT request, one poisoned session file, and the server’s yours A trivial flaw in Apache Tomcat that allows remote code execution and access to sensitive files is said to be under attack…

  • Hacker News: Offline PKI using 3 Yubikeys and an ARM single board computer

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    Source URL: https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2025-offline-pki-yubikeys Source: Hacker News Title: Offline PKI using 3 Yubikeys and an ARM single board computer Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the implementation of an offline Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) system using YubiKeys and an air-gapped environment, enhancing security against network threats. This approach is particularly…

  • Hacker News: Luthor (YC F24) Is Hiring Ruby on Rails Engineers in San Francisco

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    Source URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/luthor/jobs/HKrdhp0-staff-senior-software-engineer-backend-fullstack Source: Hacker News Title: Luthor (YC F24) Is Hiring Ruby on Rails Engineers in San Francisco Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text details Luthor, a company developing AI-driven marketing compliance solutions tailored for regulated industries such as fintech. By automating compliance-related approvals, Luthor aims to enhance efficiency…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Mistral Small 3.1

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/17/mistral-small-31/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Mistral Small 3.1 Feedly Summary: Mistral Small 3.1 Mistral Small 3 came out in January and was a notable, genuinely excellent local model that used an Apache 2.0 license. Mistral Small 3.1 offers a significant improvement: it’s multi-modal (images) and has an increased 128,000 token context length,…

  • Microsoft Security Blog: StilachiRAT analysis: From system reconnaissance to cryptocurrency theft

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    Source URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/03/17/stilachirat-analysis-from-system-reconnaissance-to-cryptocurrency-theft/ Source: Microsoft Security Blog Title: StilachiRAT analysis: From system reconnaissance to cryptocurrency theft Feedly Summary: Microsoft Incident Response uncovered a novel remote access trojan (RAT) named StilachiRAT, which demonstrates sophisticated techniques to evade detection, persist in the target environment, and exfiltrate sensitive data. This blog primarily focuses on analysis of the WWStartupCtrl64.dll…

  • Hacker News: Coq-of-rust: Formal verification tool for Rust

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    Source URL: https://github.com/formal-land/coq-of-rust Source: Hacker News Title: Coq-of-rust: Formal verification tool for Rust Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses “coq-of-rust,” a formal verification tool designed for the Rust programming language, aimed at ensuring that applications are bug-free through mathematical proofs. This tool highlights an innovative approach to bolster software…

  • Hacker News: UK Online Safety Act comes into force today

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    Source URL: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/illegal-and-harmful-content/enforcing-the-online-safety-act-platforms-must-start-tackling-illegal-material-from-today/ Source: Hacker News Title: UK Online Safety Act comes into force today Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the UK’s Online Safety Act and Ofcom’s newly launched enforcement program aimed at regulating online platforms to protect against the sharing of criminal content, specifically child sexual abuse…